#### 45.3.5 Additional command-line switches

Additional switches are available for DCL. You would need these only for working with intermediate DCL input and output formats:

    dcl [-ab] [-lm] [-s source] [–t target]

Table 45-1 shows the options for these additional switches.

Table 45-1 DCL intermediate input and output options

Switches | Purpose | Value | Description
    [-ab]
| Type of DCL output file |
    -a
| ASCII
    -b
| Binary
    [-lm]
| Endianness of input files |
    -l
| Little-endian (Intel)
    -m
| Big-endian
    [-s source]
| Type of input file |
    -s
| dcl, dcb, mif, lst, or xml
    [-t target]
| Type of output file |
    -t
| dcl, dcb, inf, rtf, htm, or xml

Types of input or output files for switches -s and -t:

dcb | Intermediate Document Coding Language binary format; see §45.5.1 DCL file structure
dcl | Intermediate Document Coding Language ASCII format; see §45.5.1 DCL file structure
htm | HTML, HTML-based Help, XML
rtf | Rich Text Format
XML | DITA, DocBook, generic XML

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45.3.4 Command-line switch -v